What is self-leadership, and why is it more critical for personal development than ever before? Maybe we should ask our phones. If we did, business and academically focused articles would highlight qualities such as self-awareness and self-management skills, which are essential for decision-making and achieving goals. I forgot my phone today, and we got along just fine without each other. It freed me to be even more present with my clients. There is empowerment through presence and a sense of wholeness and self-direction that comes from greater embodiment. We may not like to admit it, but technology brings us away …
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Keep it Clean! 7 Tools for Spiritual Hygiene
Spiritual hygiene practices are like anchors that return you to your baseline energy. Each day, we immerse ourselves in a sea of vacillating vibrations. Some are uplifting, others are neutral, and many are outright toxic! We maintain our energetic integrity best when we practice clearing our energy daily. These tools promote a more conscious way of interacting with the world. With practice and consistency, spiritual hygiene helps us better honor ourselves. Spring, the season of new beginnings, is the perfect time to offer these essential reminders. Make them part of your daily habits, like brushing your teeth, and they will …
Use Free Thinking For Empowered Living
As the new year begins, commitment to free thinking sets the tone for empowered changes. An open mind without the limitations of belief transforms perceptions. January is the month of resolutions, new beginnings, and renewed dedication to maintaining healthy habits. Many of us are returning to self-care routines and personal goals that got lost somewhere between the spiked eggnog and second helpings of our favorite holiday meal. Some are still there among the missing or hibernating. Free thinking challenges us to reevaluate our convictions and shows us there’s no one way to live right. It also helps us to get …
Be Mindful Within a Distracted World & Live Better
To be mindful instead of mind-full, reactive, or mentally absent is a worthwhile challenge. A busy world has people frenzied, immersed in their tasks, and preoccupied with their next assignments. We all get wrapped up in our doings and miss a lot. Prioritize slowing down to foster a way of being that enriches meaningful living. To be mindful is to taste your food, notice when your friend gets a haircut, or that the mountain laurel on your street has more blooms than last season. Present within our senses, we become conscious of the beauty of simplicity regardless of the complexities …
Find Joy in What You Choose to See
How do you find joy? You make discovering it a priority over everything else. To do this, reassign the meaning you attach to people and circumstances that make you feel troubled. Change your interpretations so that what once caused anxiety now strengthens you. As you master this new way of explaining your world, it will transform your perception, offering you peace and purpose. You will then find joy in reflecting the light you see back to those who need it the most. Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from …
Quality Matters, Don’t Settle For Less!
Quality matters in what you consume and purchase, the thoughts you hold, and the conversations you entertain. Election season challenges our integrity. It presents black-and-white equations that pull us into garbage thinking and low-value conversations. Are you allowing outside chatter to sour your thoughts and emotions? Do you trade quality for convenience? It’s our responsibility to decide that quality matters enough to make high-value choices, especially when presented with very few. Prioritize your personal quality above all else and it will support your highest visions for a better future. You make the greatest contribution, embodying the quality you seek. The …
Who’s at High Risk of Being Misled? You Are!
Who is at high risk of being conned into believing you need something harmful? We all are! In this upside-down world of wellness, big business, big money, and direct-to-consumer drug advertising, we are in danger of having our values shaped by the man behind the curtain. The wellness economy has a lot to say about what you should value and how that translates into what you should invest in. The closer you look at the products and services you consume to support your wellness, the more you’ll discover misalignment. Let the process of grounded awareness, coupled with a critical look …
Flexibility With Personal Goals Fixes Your Flow
You may approach your personal goals with every intention of adhering to routines and habits that allow for flow and ease. Just then, as life will have it, the unexpected happens! Achieving balance in life requires the freedom to adapt plans, sometimes without notice. How willing and able you flex with change shapes your experiences and influences outcomes. Rigidity impedes energetic flow. Regularly reassess your personal goals even when there are no fires to put out to maintain balance and avoid stalled or leaky energy. Personal Goals and Plan B, C or D! One of my personal goals is to …
When Drugs Don’t Work, Why More Prescriptions?
When drugs don’t work and fail to alleviate symptoms, it makes sense to look deeper at the root cause, and alternative treatments. Why are so many who seek medical guidance instead given more medication? Let me ask you, do you so wholeheartedly trust in prescribers and the science of big pharma that you are agreeable to taking recommended prescriptions despite not having clear evidence of their efficacy? Are you following outdated beliefs and expectations about a medical system that no longer sees you as anything more than a commodity? Package it however they will, the medical establishment is no longer …
Live Authentically and Develop Inner Wealth
To live authentically, recognize the external and internal pressures that beckon you to participate in life artificially. When you reflect on early influences, make the unconscious conscious, and practice pausing before engaging you come more fully into your authentic self. Many influences diminish your ability to participate in life honestly. These micro self-betrayals, detected within the truest part of your being, tell you when you are deviating from your authentic expressions and paths. Making choices that reduce these compromises, helps you to develop inner wealth and live a more authentic life. Challenges Presented by Outside Expectations and Measures By the …